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Reminder:  This Week's meeting is at Hadley School for the Blind
Hadley School is located at 700 Elm Street in Winnetka.
Time to Share Your Bounty

Continuing our club's long standing Thanksgiving tradition, we will once again partner with the Volunteer Center to provide post-holiday groceries for families in transitional housing who are served by Good News Partners in Chicago's North of Howard neighborhood. We will purchase groceries in bulk at Costco before our meeting on Nov 20, so please donate by November 16.

Your gifts provide post-holiday groceries to these families in need. Donate by credit card or bank transfer here, or mail a check made payable to WNRCF to Rotary Club of Winnetka Northfield, 620 Lincoln Ave, Winnetka, IL 60093.

We hope to provide over 100 bags of groceries and have a fundraising goal of $2,500. 

Donate here, or bring a check or credit card to a lunch meeting. 

Meeting Assignments
October 30
Greeter Heidi Sibert
Thought & Sgt.Liz Taylor
Dig-n-GrinWes Baumann
ScribeThomas Applegate
 
November 6
Greeter Michael Ambrose
Thought & Sgt.Thomas Applegate
Dig-n-GrinDavid Birkenstein
ScribePatti Van Cleave
 
November 13
Greeter Vicki Bittar
Thought & Sgt.Moha Bouacha
Dig-n-GrinDebra Campbell
ScribeAmy Skalinder
 
If you are unable to fulfill your assignment, please find a substitute.
 
 
 
Attend the Weekly Meeting on Zoom
Here is the log-in info for today's Rotary meeting. Meeting starts at 12:15, with people beginning to gather around noon.
 
Thursday Lunch Meetings 12:15 pm -1:30 pm
 
If you log on with this link, you will not need a password.
 
Log in with the Zoom app:
Meeting ID: 198 435 237
Password: Win60093
 
Join by Phone: 
312 626 6799; Meeting ID: 198 435 237; Password:  798428 (note, if asked for User ID, press #).
 
Reminder- you can give happy bucks, dig n grin, birthday donations and other donations to our foundation at https://wnrotary.org/page/donate/ or by texting DIGNGRIN to 44-321. 
 
Winnetka-Northfield Rotary Club Creating a Women's Clothing Cooperative in Morocco
The Rotary Club of Winnetka-Northfield is teaming up with The Rotary Foundation and the Rotary Club of Rabat in the capital city of Morocco to establish a women's clothing cooperative in the village of Tomoulilt. This will be a project funded in part with a Rotary Foundation Global Grant (GG#2571461). 
 
The program's objectives are to:
  1. Create a revenue-generating cooperative run by stakeholders of village women/girls;
  2. Empower women to run and manage a long-term sustainable and profitable business operation.
The project funds new equipment and training for the cooperative's participants. Training will encompass technical use of the equipment, entrepreneurial skills, business planning and management, sales and marketing planning, and financial management. The program's vision is to create a self-sustaining long term business enterprise for the participating women in Timoulilt. 
 
Overall program budget is $100,000. The club is seeking cash and District Designated Funds (DDF) support from Rotary Clubs and Districts.  
 
For more information, contact Club Co-President Moha Bouacha at m_bouacha@yahoo.com. Cash contributions may be made online by clicking here
Support The Rotary Foundation!
At the March 6 meeting, Rich Lalley presented an overview of the work of our two foundations- the Winnetka-Northfield Rotary Foundation (WNRCF) and The Rotary Foundation (TRF) of Rotary International. You can review that presentation here
 
The club's board has set a goal of achieving 100% participation in supporting TRF this Rotary Year. To reach this goal, every active member needs to donate a minimum of $25 to The Rotary Foundation.  You can do this online by clicking here.
 
We also aspire to be a 100% Paul Harris Fellow Club. For member who are not yet a Paul Harris Fellow, once your donation level reaches $250 and you have made a contribution this year, our club will celebrate you with a Paul Harris Fellow Award. 
 
We appreciate all of our members who have contributed generously to The Rotary Foundation and to our club's WNRCF foundation. Thank you!
 
Paul Harris Fellows
Bob Baker, Wes Baumann, David Birkenstein*, Moha Boucha, Debra CampbellKen Drummet, Tom Evans, David Grant*, Tony Kambich*, Marie Kuipers, Rich Lalley, Bill Leske, Robert Mardirossian, Ned Meisner, Chuck Norton, Lee Padgitt, ArLynn Presser, Fred Schwimmer*, Heidi Sibert, Peter Skalski, Liz Taylor, Barb Tubekis, Patti Van Cleave. 
 
Bold indicates donation made this Rotary Year. * indicates Major Donor. 
 
Speakers
Oct 30, 2025
Rotary is offsite during the WCH Antiques & Modernism Show!!

We will gather at Hadley School for the Blind, which is located at 700 Elm St. in Winnetka, between noon and 12:15, with lunch catered by Little Honeycomb.   Johnjoe Farragher, President and Chief Executive Officer, will speak and offer us a tour.

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President's Monthly Open Mic & Rotarians Behind the Badge
Nov 20, 2025
Packing Thanksgiving Baskets for Good News Partners
Nov 27, 2025
No Meeting Today
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President's Monthly Open Mic & Rotarians Behind the Badge
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New Trier High School Swing Choir
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Upcoming Events
Operation Warm Coat Gifting- Edgewater Library
Edgewater Library
Dec 06, 2025
1:30 PM – 4:00 PM
 
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David Grant
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WELCOME TO OUR CLUB! CELEBRATING 100 YEARS OF SERVICE. COME JOIN US CONNECTING FOR GOOD.
Winnetka-Northfield
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620 Lincoln Avenue
Winnetka, IL 60093
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Birthdays & Anniversaries
Member Birthdays
Brooke Peppey
October 4
 
Debra Campbell
October 30
 
Anniversaries
Patti Van Cleave
Brian
October 16
 
Join Date
Denise Dubravec
October 1, 2013
12 years
 
Felicia O'Malley
October 5, 2017
8 years